The Behavioral Neurology of Dementia

by Miller, Bruce L.; Boeve, Bradley F.

• ISBN13: 9781107629998
• ISBN10: 1107629993
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-04-29
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

The Behavioral Neurology of Dementia is a comprehensive textbook that offers a unique and modern approach to the diagnosis and treatment of patients with dementing conditions in the twenty-first century. The coverage is broad, ranging from common conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinsonian disorders, vascular and frontotemporal dementia, to the more obscure such as Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Subtypes of mild cognitive impairment are presented and the early prodromes of neurodegenerative diseases are explored. Simple approaches to bedside mental status testing, differential diagnosis and treatment, genetic testing, interpreting neuropsychological testing and neuroimaging findings, and assessing rapidly progressive dementias, paraneoplastic syndromes and disorders of white matter give guidance to both the novice and expert in dementia. The basic science of dementia is outlined in introductory chapters on animal models of dementia, dementia epidemiology and dementia neuropathology.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

Preface

Introduction

Basic clinical approaches to diagnosis

Neurogenetics of dementia

Frontotemporal dementia

Alzheimer's disease

Mental status examination

Neuropsychiatric features of dementia

Neuroimaging in dementia

Epidemiology and risk factors

Animal models of dementia

Neuropathology of dementia

Cognitive Impairment, Not Demented

Cerebrovascular contributions to amnestic mild cognitive impairment Charles

Mild cognitive impairment

Mild cognitive impairment (MCI) subgroups

Early clinical features of the Parkinsonian-related dementias

Dementia treatment

Dementia and cognition in the oldest-old

Slowly Progressive Dementias

Semantic dementia

Progressive non-fluent aphasia

Cognition in corticobasal degeneration and progressive supranuclear palsy

Cognitive and behavioral abnormalities of vascular dementia

CADASIL: a genetic model of arteriolar degeneration, white matter injury, and dementia in later life

Rapidly Progressive Dementias

Prion disorders and other rapidly progressive dementias

Delirium masquerading as dementia

Paraneoplastic disorders of the memory and cognition

Dementia with Lewy bodies

Index

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